i love how most of your right-leaners complain endlessly about entitlements and then smoothly segue into complaints about healthcare costs. What political and economic regime entitles you to healthcare costs at 'fair' prices? Eh?

In other words, shut the **** up about the cost of healthcare. You should be paying more. A lot.

It's a simple fact: we need to get off oil. Put a $1 per gallon tax on it, and throw that all into alternative energy. Then thank me later.

I disagree with the alternative energy argument here, as oil wells have been proven to be replenishing themselves naturally.
Gas prices are held up by the oil companies that will charge whatever they feel like charging, regardless of the price of a barrel of oil.
When was the last time you saw a lobbyist for alternative energy running around congress?
There's no money or sustainability for alternatives as of yet.

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson

I disagree with the alternative energy argument here, as oil wells have been proven to be replenishing themselves naturally.
Gas prices are held up by the oil companies that will charge whatever they feel like charging, regardless of the price of a barrel of oil.
When was the last time you saw a lobbyist for alternative energy running around congress?
There's no money or sustainability for alternatives as of yet.

well then, good thing I wasn't talking strictly in terms of money, eh?

well then, good thing I wasn't talking strictly in terms of money, eh?

did you just say there is no sustainability in sustainable energy?

Yeah no doubt.

Yeah I did, pay no mind to that comment.
Although it does take money and effort from our government to bring these technologies to fruition, which you will never see unless you're a big wig.

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson

but you won't admit that you think we should be paying higher in healthcare costs?

Why the hell should we be paying higher healthcare costs? We already have some of the highest costs in the world.

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson

Do you believe Americans should be paying higher in healthcare costs too?

the fact that you are ready to (1) reduce health care and care giving to a commodity right out of the gate, and (2) equate that commodity with oil -- especially foreign oil -- is just too over-the-top laughable.

the fact that you are ready to (1) reduce health care and care giving to a commodity right out of the gate, and (2) equate that commodity with oil -- especially foreign oil -- is just too over-the-top laughable.

Any habitual action, such as eating or dressing, may be performed on the appropriate occasion, without any need of thought, and the same seems to be true of a painfully large proportion of our talk. -- Bertrand Russell